EDtoVIEW 0.20
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This program allows you to convert EDWORD files into VIEW or plain Ascii
text files.  If you examine the structure of an EDWORD file you will see
that everything is stored backwards.  This program moves backwards through
the file and writes it forwards so that it can be loaded into an ordinary
word processor.

When you run the program you are given a catalogue of the current
directory.  Where you are asked for the filename, you can also do
*-commands by making the first character a '*'.

After giving the filename you are told what type of EDWORD file it is, and
whether the converted file will fit into memory, or whether the program
needs to spool to the output file, whereupon the conversion will be
slower.  You are then asked if you want to output to a file, and the
filename.  If you answer 'N', then the EDWORD file will just be displayed
on the screen.

You are then asked if you want to convert the wide and bold markers in the
EDWORD text.  If you answer 'Y' to these, then they will be converted to
the extended highlights used by the 'Printer' and 'MakeLP' programs; *W *w
for wide and *B *b for bold.  If you answer 'N', then all bold and wide
markers are ignored.

You are then asked if you want to convert underlined text.  This is
converted to highlight 0 before and after the text. 

As the conversion progresses, the file is displayed on the screen.  The
following characters are displayed as well as the text:
	left and right wide arrows around the wide text in EDWORD
	left and right bold markers around the bold text in EDWORD
	bent arrow for carriage returns at the end of paragraphs
	single down arrow marks carriage returns added to end of lines
	double down arrows mark where text has overflowed over the line

Unrecognised bytes from the EDWORD file are converted to [xxx] where xxx
is the the byte in decimal.

When converting into memory, the completed file is saved at the end. When
spooling, the file is output as it goes along.  The resultant file can be
loaded into VIEW or, if 'N' is given for the markers and a pure text file
is created, it can be loaded into any ordinary word processor as Ascii
text.

Program History
V0.01	01-Oct-1985	Original version.
V0.10	03-Apr-1991	Loads to memory.
V0.20	08-Oct-1997	Channel closing and error handler tidied up.